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TIA1 is a gender-specific disease modifier of a mild mouse model of spinal muscular atrophy.
Scientific reports - 3 Aug 2017
Howell Matthew D, Ottesen Eric W, Singh Natalia N, Anderson Rachel L, Seo Joonbae, Sivanesan Senthilkumar, Whitley Elizabeth M, Singh Ravindra N
Abstract excerpt
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is caused by deletions or mutations of Survival Motor Neuron 1 (SMN1) gene. The nearly identical SMN2 cannot compensate for SMN1 loss due to exon 7 skipping. The allele C (C +/+) mouse recapitulates a mild SMA-like phenotype and offers an ideal system to monitor the role of disease-modifying factors over a long time. T-cell-restricted intracellular antigen 1 (TIA1) regulates SMN exon...
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